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Father Brown
Father Brown is G. K. Chesterton's fictional Catholic priest-detective, first appearing in "The Blue Cross" (1910) and featuring in over fifty short stories modeled intellectually on Father John O'Connor, later adapted for film and the BBC series with Mark Williams.
Father Sergius
Father Sergius (Отец Сергий) is a novella by Leo Tolstoy about Prince Stepan Kasatsky, a young officer who enters a monastery; it appeared posthumously in 1911.
Fatherland (novel)
Fatherland (1992) is Robert Harris's alternate-history thriller, his first novel, set in a 1964 Berlin where Nazi Germany won WWII; Kripo detective Xavier March uncovers a Holocaust coverup as the US seeks détente.
Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети) (novel)
Fathers and Sons (Отцы и дети, Fathers and Children), Turgenev's 1862 novel in 28 chapters about the nihilist Bazarov and the generational conflict on the eve of the Emancipation of the Serfs.
Faust
Faust, legendary German scholar who pacts with the devil (Mephistopheles); launched by the 1587 Faustbuch of Johann Spies, retold by Marlowe (Doctor Faustus, 1604) and Goethe (Faust, 1790–1832), damned in early versions, redeemed by Goethe.
Faust, Part One
Faust, Part One (Faust I) is the first part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, published in full in 1808, in which Faust makes a pact with Mephistopheles.
Faust, Part Two
Faust, Part Two (German: Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil) is the second part of Goethe's verse tragedy Faust, completed in 1831 and published posthumously in 1832.
Faust: A Poem
Faust: A Poem (German: Faust. Ein Gedicht) is an 1836 epic-dramatic verse poem by the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau, retelling the Faust legend as one of doubt and despair rather than redemption.
Fausto
Fausto is an 1866 comic gauchesco poem by the Argentine writer Estanislao del Campo, in which the gaucho Anastasio el Pollo describes Gounod's opera Faust as if its events really happened.
Fëanor
Fëanor (Fëanáro, "Spirit of Fire"; also Curufinwë) is the eldest son of Finwë in Tolkien's Silmarillion, maker of the Silmarils and Tengwar, whose oath and rebellion against the Valar doomed the Noldor.
Fear and Courage
Fear and Courage (Strah in pogum) is a 1951 collection of four novellas by the Slovene writer Edvard Kocbek, examining moral dilemmas in the wartime Partisan movement.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 gonzo journalism book, serialized in Rolling Stone as 'Raoul Duke', published by Random House in 1972, illustrated by Ralph Steadman, and filmed by Terry Gilliam in 1998.
Fear of Flying (novel)
Fear of Flying is a 1973 debut novel by Erica Jong, whose frank account of the poet Isadora Wing became a #1 bestseller and sold over 20 million copies.
Fear Street
Fear Street is R.L. Stine's young-adult horror book series launched in 1989, set in cursed Shadyside; over 80 million copies sold, revived 2014, adapted by Netflix in 2021 and 2025.
Fearing the Black Body
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, Sabrina Strings, NYU Press 2019: argues anti-fat bias, especially toward Black women, arose from Enlightenment racism and Protestant moralism, not medicine; ASA award winner.
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is Ian Fleming's fictional Texan CIA agent and James Bond's American friend, debuting in Casino Royale (1953), maimed by a shark in Live and Let Die, played by eight actors in ten films, and killed on screen in No Time to Die (2021).
Feliz Ano Novo
Feliz Ano Novo is a 1975 collection of fifteen short stories by the Brazilian writer Rubem Fonseca, an immediate bestseller that the military dictatorship banned nationwide in 1976.
Feluda
Feluda (ফেলুদা), Pradosh Chandra Mitter, is Satyajit Ray's fictional Bengali private detective, first appearing in Sandesh in 1965; 35 completed stories, narrated by cousin Topshe, with Jatayu joining in Sonar Kella (1971), and adapted for film, TV, and streaming.
Feminist literary criticism
Feminist literary criticism analyzes literature through feminist theory and politics, examining women's representation, gynocriticism, Anglo-American versus French strands, intersectionality, and waves from the 1960s woman's movement to fourth-wave digital criticism.
Feminist novel
The feminist novel is fiction that explores women's lives from a gender-centered perspective and challenges patriarchal structures, going beyond any novel merely written by a woman.
Femme fatale
The femme fatale, French for "fatal woman," is a stock character, an attractive seductress who brings disaster or death to men, tied especially to 1940s film noir.
Fenshu
Fenshu (焚书), also titled Lishi Fenshu, is a six-juan collection of essays, letters, and poems by the Ming philosopher Li Zhi, first printed in 1590.
Ferdowsi
Ferdowsi (Abu'l-Qāsem Ferdowsi Tusi, 940–1019/1025), Persian epic poet of Tus, Khorasan, author of the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), completed 1010 CE after about 30 years; national epic of Iran, key source for pre-Islamic Persian history and language preservation.
Ferdydurke
Ferdydurke is a grotesque novel by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, published in Warsaw in 1937, in which a thirty-year-old narrator is returned to school.
Fern (フェルン) (Frieren)
Fern (フェルン) is the human mage apprentice of Frieren in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, raised by priest Heiter; voiced by Kana Ichinose, she passed the First-Class Mage Exam using only Zoltraak and defensive magic.
Fern Hill
"Fern Hill" is a lyric poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1945, recalling childhood summers at a Carmarthenshire farm and ending with the loss of childhood to time.
Fernand de Morcerf
Fernand de Morcerf, born Fernand Mondego, is the Catalan fisherman in Dumas's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo who betrays Edmond Dantès, sells Ali Pasha of Janina, becomes a French count and peer, and dies by suicide after exposure.
Ferrements
Ferrements is a 1960 poetry collection by the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, his fifth book, published by Éditions du Seuil in Paris amid the decolonization era.
Fervor de Buenos Aires
Fervor de Buenos Aires is the first book by Jorge Luis Borges, a collection of 46 poems self-published in Buenos Aires in July 1923, a landmark of the Argentine avant-garde.
Feso
Feso is a 1956 novel by Zimbabwean writer Solomon Mutswairo, widely credited as the first novel written in the Shona language, telling of war and love between two Shona chiefdoms.